Sep 16 2022

Beihai Park 北海公园


1 Wenjin St,
西安门 Xicheng District, Beijing, 100034.

This is a public park evolved from an imperial garden northwest of the Forbidden City in Beijing, west of Jingshan Park in the heart of Beijing.


Sep 11 2022

Six Six Dimpling


136-20 Roosevelt Ave, #29
Flushing, NY 11354
Tel (917) 563-1243

This vendor is at the lower level food court in the complex on the SE corner of Main and Roosevelt. They’re at the corner to the right. I’ve visited them pretty often. Before for their radish cake (no longer offered bec it was too time consuming, per Manager Huang), now the fried dumplings. Overall, their foods are on the sweet side, and stingy on portion. Good thing is that they take credit card but overcharged me.

  • fried dumplings 生煎包 $8 for six ($10 for eight) – pretty good
  • meatball 狮子头 $7.5 for three – pretty good
  • fried yellow fish 炸小黄鱼 – uncleaned $10
  • 烤麸 $8 – ok
  • pig’s feet 猪脚 $10 – not tender

It’s interesting to note, they advertise the fried dumpling $7.99 and $9.99 but made no effort to return the penny – not that I care but it reminds me of my experience in Beijing as well.


Sep 9 2022

Rongwang 旺盛


136-51 Roosevelt Ave
Flushing, NY 11354

Opening hours are daily, 7:30am to 9pm.
A newly opened (one month old) Cantonese restaurant, right outside of the subway escalator.

The young lady is very friendly. The service is good. Food is slightly above average. We took them to the US Open, which is great:

S1 Dumplings – ok
H2 Rice noodle chow fun and beef 干炒牛河 – very good
T3 roasted duck – ok

They’ve one big and clean bathroom.


For the convenience, after US Open I returned for more

~ E12 beef stew – good
~ Beef and bitter melon – good (huge pieces)
~ T6 n T7 roast pig 叉烧 n 烧猪肉 – good
~ E15 salty fish, chicken and eggplant – this classic dish began with tofu but they use eggplant which is pretty good
Wish them good luck and prosper.


Sep 4 2022

Great Neck Wines Spirits


13 N Station Plaza
Great Neck, NY 11021

This wine store has been there for ages. And recently we shopped there for a few times, realizing that the old store owner was gone. Two Chinese men manning the store. When I asked where the curly hair man was, one of them said, “Oh, the boss is from China.”

The other wine shop at the Garden Zheng Brothers Wine Liquor is also owned by Chinese – don’t know if by the same owner.

They did a decent renovation of the store, which is nice, injected some life into the small space.


Sep 4 2022

Mi Casa Es Tu Casa


20 S Station Plaza
Great Neck, NY 11021

Fake flowers … ehhhhh

The last time we were there, was a different restaurant, under different name.

This one’s decor is pleasant. One lady serves the room. I’ve a partial view of the one monitor that’s on, I ask her to change to US Open which she did. Although I’ve full view of the other two monitors but she didn’t offer to turn either of them on. I would have stayed longer with more drinks.

Food: big portion but yummy. The green sauce is devious.

 


Sep 1 2022

Jerry


9808 Vaughn St
Gibsonton, FL 33534

An average bar on the water. Clean bathroom. Accessible by cars and boats – shirtless, bikinis. A good place to watch the US Open

Both Tampa Cuban and pizza – they call it flat bread are good. The River Mary is yummy – spicy and salty. Oddly enough, they don’t serve salad.